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Chevy Chase says his decision to participate in Community was a "big mistake" and that he considers sitcoms to be "the lowest form of television," according to the Huffington Post's UK edition.

Though he was quick to compliment his colleagues on the NBC comedy, Chase said he was drawn to it because of the steady paycheck. But that may have been a poor decision in hindsight, he says.

"It was a big mistake!" Chase said when asked why he made the leap from movies to television to play millionaire Pierce Hawthorne on the show. "I saw this pilot script, thought that it was funny, and I went into the room where they were casting and said, 'I would love to play this guy.' Then they mulled it over. Then they hired me and I just sort of hung around because I have three daughters and a wife, and I figured out I might as well make some bread every week. ... [But] the hours in this kind of show are not commensurate with the actual product."

Chase's disdain apparently extends beyond Community to the entire genre.

"The hours are hideous, and it's still a sitcom on television, which is probably the lowest form of television," he told the Huffington Post UK. "I think the reason I have stuck around is because I love these kids, the cast - they are very good. It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends."

Dan Harmon said in an interview that he never wanted Chevy Chase. Chase heard about the show, demanded he be given a part, and the NBC brass wanted a high-profile celebrity on the show to promote it. Chevy Chase was the only actor who didn't have to audition... even Joel McHale auditioned for his role.

How about the leap from almost complete obscurity to television? Ignoring a couple of films that flopped in the early 1990s, you have to go back to 1989 and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation to get to when he was really making any movie worth talking about.

As far as the lowest form of lowest form of television, I do agree with Gary Mitchell about 'reality" TV being the lowest form of television..... unless you count Chase's late night talk show, which lasted only a few weeks until it spiraled in for a smoking crash landing.